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Ruvan22 posted...

What did you think was terrible about the human storyline?

In the sense of a generic fantasy world, the human story was fine. In the sense of the Warcraft universe, it was loaded with retcons and sanitizing. A lot of characters were portrayed either incorrectly, or just poorly. Lothar wasn't Lothar, Garona wasn't Garona, Khadgar was sort of Khadgar, but somehow movie Khadgar was even dorkier than real Khadgar.

For example, Khadgar was supposed to be Medivh's apprentice. He was meant to spend the majority of the movie's plot line researching happenings in and around Karazhan (which is an iconic Warcraft location with rich lore that the movie barely even addressed).

Lothar is meant to be a war-hardened badass, not a jumping/leaping action hero with a snarky sense of humor, flashy moves, and a dead son to provide motivation he didn't need (this is definitely a problem that came from Hollywood cliches).

Medivh was portrayed.......decently, I guess, but like I said above, his story is more complex than the movie permitted us to see, and Khadgar was supposed to spend a lot of time around him/learning from him before figuring out his problem.

The weirdest thing was the ending when the humans/orcs really came together. In the real story, Garona assassinated Llane in his own throne room because she was a double agent under the control of Gul'dan and the shadow council. A tragic character, still, but the movie removed almost all of her ambiguity and struggle, in order to make her palatable for generic audiences. Llane definitely didn't just throw himself at her so she could kill him. That was out of character for everybody involved.

A ton of things were wrong or rearranged to fit the relatively short run time of a movie. More so on the human side. The orc side had some changes and retcons for the sake of dramatic effect, but it ran a lot closer to the truth than the human side did.

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